{"nrhp_refnum":"90001410","name":"Philadelphia Wholesales Drug Company Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"513--525 N. Tenth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.96147076800003,"lon":-75.15534119799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-story reinforced concrete warehouse at the southeast corner of Spring Garden and Tenth Streets in Philadelphia, completed in 1927 for the Philadelphia Wholesale Drug Company. It is clad in cast stone and brick and has a flat gravel roof behind a parapet.","why_significant":"The building is associated with the Philadelphia Wholesale Drug Company, a retail druggists' buying cooperative that became a leading firm in Philadelphia's pharmaceutical wholesale trade. It is also significant as a rare industrial work by the local architectural firm Rankin & Kellogg, and as one of the few extant buildings tied to the company.","narrative":"Completed in 1927 at the corner of Spring Garden and Tenth Streets, this seven-story warehouse was built for the Philadelphia Wholesale Drug Company, a buying cooperative formed by retail druggists. The firm had grown to serve some eight hundred members and other retailers, and its sales surpassed $12 million by 1930, which made a company warehouse necessary. The building has a reinforced concrete frame and flat-slab floors, with cast stone on the first story and brick above. Seven arched truck bays on the north side and rail loading openings on the south side reflected the building's role in handling merchandise by road and rail. Designed by the local firm Rankin & Kellogg, it is valued for its restrained, abstract ornament and as one of the few industrial buildings by that practice. Its association with the company and the region's pharmaceutical trade is also a basis for listing.","period_of_significance":"1927-1940","architect_builder":"Thomas Kellogg and John Hall Rankin (Rankin & Kellogg, architects)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant since the 1980s, after the Packard Press relocated its operations from the building.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.306027-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001410.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001410/743bd4f5a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001410/743bd4f5a8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philly_Wholesale_Drug.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philly_Wholesale_Drug.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000403","name":"Callowhill Industrial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/callowhill-industrial-historic-district-10000403/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997434","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Wholesale_Drug_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7182852"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/philadelphia-wholesales-drug-company-building-90001410/"}